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Old 28-08-2009, 10:34 PM posted to sci.bio.botany
[email protected] kathy@nowhere.net is offline
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Default Weed for identification

monique wrote:
Looks like Fatoua villosa, an herb in the Moraceae. Not something you
want to encourage. Compare
http://pubs.caes.uga.edu/caespubs/pubcd/C867-5.htm


Thanks so much. that's it, spot-on. Will get rid of the little darlings
right now.

Just pulled them up - there were a lot more of them than I had realized.

--Kathy

wrote:
WOndering if anyone recognizes this weedy plant. Lots of seedlings just
appeared this year and I let a couple grow to try to see what it might be.
About 60cm tall.

It's growing in the Washington, DC area.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/67073460@N00/3864244091/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/67073460@N00/3864244071/



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